After the Arizona Supreme Court upheld a ruling banning all abortions except to save the life of the mother, GOP senate candidate Kari Lake disavowed the decision.
“I oppose today’s ruling, and I am calling on Katie Hobbs and the State Legislature to come up with an immediate common-sense solution that Arizonans can support,” Lake said in a statement.
On X, the Daily Signal’s Mary Margaret Olohan shared a clip of Kari Lake from 2022, in which the then-candidate for governor said: “Obviously I think Roe should be overturned. . . . We have a great law on the books right now. If that happens, we will be a state where we will not be taking the lives of our unborn anymore.”
The overturning of Roe v. Wade has called the bluff of Republicans who claimed to be pro-life but never expected to have to prove it. Conveniently for them, Trump’s own statement on abortion has lowered pro-life standards for GOP leadership for the foreseeable future.